Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, has had enough of the dishonest mainstream media. So, Musk he had created an idea to put an end to “fake news” — forever!
After a series of nasty articles slamming his company, Musk says he plans to start a website to score journalists on their credibility. Even the president’s son has chimed in support of Musk’s idea.
“Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …,” he tweeted Wednesday.
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018
Musk reported that he has seen plenty of biased reporting in the last few months, and it sick of journalists using their articles to promote their politics (instead of the truth).
Trump has expressed during his presidency that the media has given him and his office unfair coverage, only focusing on the negative and never reporting on his positive impact.
“The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them,” Musk wrote on Twitter Wednesday.
The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them https://t.co/Ay2DwCOMkr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018
Social media trolls attacked Musk for being just like Trump, but he hit back at the haters by stating, “Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks “You’re just like Trump!””
Musk continues his slow transformation into a media-baiting Trump figure screaming irrationally about fake news. Hope it works out for you dude! https://t.co/CtHkOip747
— Andrew J. Hawkins ??? (@andyjayhawk) May 23, 2018
First son Donald Trump Jr. used the opportunity to weigh in and declare, “This…So true!!!”
This… So true!!! https://t.co/O7izlkKWzS
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 23, 2018
Musk’s attack on the mainstream media comes after an article was posted last month stating his company, Tesla, failed to report injuries to make numbers look good. To which Musk responded stating the article was “a calculated disinformation campaign.”
“No, they’re just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously,” he tweeted.
Oh is that the problem, Elon? @Reveal is a non profit, suffering from none of these problems.
The ignorance this man displays daily of the journalism process is truly astounding. https://t.co/779hTkwNZ5
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) May 23, 2018
The billionaire’s idea to create a public site to assign articles, journalists, editors, and publications according to a credibility score could be the first step to making the mainstream media less left-leaning and more accurate.
Musk hinted he is thinking of calling the site “Pravda,” an old Soviet Russia term meaning truth.